Unit 4 Leaves

What is Photosynthesis?

• Green stuff in the plant

• making food for the plant

• the holes in the leaves that let oxygen and carbon dioxide through

What is Chlorophyll

• a green substance that makes photosynthesis possible

• the process of creating food for the plant

• glucose (sugar)

What is the stomata?

• the changing of light into energy

• the green substance in leaves

• tiny holes on the bottom of the leaf

• Where the food is stored in the leaves

What are guard cells?

• cells on the side of the stomata that open and close to let oxygen and CO2 through

• Tiny holes in the bottom of the leaves

• catalyst

What is a catalyst?

• a green substance that causes photosynthesis

• something that causes a chemical reaction

• what makes the plant "breath"

Opposite leaf arrangement

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Alternate leaf arrangement

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Whorled leaf arrangement

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rosette leaf arrangement

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bracts

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